Literary usage of Marathoner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Confessions of a War Correspondent by William Gunn Shepherd (1917)"... the great Finnish marathoner. I began my story thus: "Beating it from Przemysl
was one grand Kolehmainen." I wrote thirty paragraphs of the sheerest ..."

2.United States Naval Medical Bulletin by United States Navy Dept. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (1918)"The first marathoner is said to have dropped dead at the finish. It is likewise
significant that the career of all runners is usually short. ..."